central nervous system ranks among the favorite sites to get involved by nocardia astroides. this opportunistic organism complicates many disorders characterized by cellular or humoral immunity disturbances.a 36-year-old woman is being presented, known to have systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) and having received a two year course of corticosteroid treatment. cerebellar abscess was found on di...

Background: Ultrasonography (USG) remains the primary modality for fetal imaging. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a suitable adjunct to USG. MRI currently not used as screening tool antenatal period; however, it provides reproducible anatomy and can be more informative when diagnosis on USG inconclusive. Aim of study was contribution in diagnosing anomalies at zonal hospital.Methods: This p...

Bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9), also known as growth differentiation factor 2 (GDF2), is a member of the transforming ? (TGF ?) superfamily. Although BMP9 plays pivotal roles during development, including angiogenesis, hematopoiesis, hepatogenesis, osteogenesis, and glucose metabolism, little information available for expression in central nervous system (CNS). We, thus, investigated adult...

background: tumors of the central nervous system (cns) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with different prevalence in different sex and age groups and various parts of cns. objectives: determining the relative frequency of different types of cns tumors in different ages, sex and cns anatomical locations. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed using pathological repor...